2 Arrested in Spain over Daesh links

A man and a woman have been arrested as part of a Spanish National Police counter-terrorism operation underway in Catalonia and the Canary Islands.

Both suspects are accused of recruiting and training people for Daesh via the social networks and of seeking to send them to conflict zones, Spanish “El Pais” newspaper reported.

Officers are searching the properties of the two suspects in order to collect computer files and other evidence.

The suspects allegedly published death threats against France and Spain on the social networks

According to sources close to the investigation, which is being coordinated by the National High Court, the suspects had allegedly published generic death threats against France and Spain on the social networks.

The arrests follow several others that have been made in Spain since the November 13 Paris attacks, in which 130 people died. On December 2 a 32-year-old Moroccan man was arrested in Pamplona after he was found to have been viewing large quantities of jihadist material online over the last two years.

On November 28, the Civil Guard arrested two men and one woman in Barcelona and nearby Granollers accused of belonging to a jihadist network that specialized in recruiting women and sending them off to Afghanistan and other conflict zones.

Sources: MENA